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2 wins & 11 nominations. See more awards » Videos A group of young adults discover a boarded up Camp Crystal Lake, where they soon encounter Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions. Director: Marcus Nispel Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenage population. Except this time, they're out to get each other, too. Director: Ronny Yu 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X Several people are hunted by a cruel serial killer who kills his victims in their dreams. While the survivors are trying to find the reason for being chosen, the murderer won't lose any chance to kill them as soon as they fall asleep. Director: Wes Craven Survivors of undead serial killer Freddy Krueger - who stalks his victims in their dreams - learn to take control of their own dreams in order to fight back. Director: Chuck Russell A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by Freddy Krueger who is out to possess him in order to continue his murder spree in the real world.

Director: Jack Sholder Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may know the way to defeat him for good. Director: Renny Harlin Freddy Krueger returns once again to haunt both the dreams of Springwood's last surviving teenager and a woman with a deep connection to him. Director: Rachel Talalay The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world. Director: Stephen Hopkins A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world? Director: Wes Craven 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.1/10 X After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.

Director: Rob Zombie After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers. Director: Marcus Nispel Jason Voorhees returns with a new look, a new machete, and his same murderous attitude as he is awakened on a spaceship in the 25th century. Director: James Isaac Edit Storyline Death stalks the dreams of several young adults to claim its revenge on the killing of Freddy Kruger. Chased and chastised by this finger-bladed demon, it is the awakening of old memories and the denials of a past of retribution that spurns this hellish vision of a dreamlike state and turns death into a nightmare reality. Written by Cinema_Fan Welcome to Your New Nightmare.

See more » Genres: Rated R for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 30 April 2010 (USA) See more » Also Known As: A Nightmare on Elm Street 9 See more » Filming Locations: $32,902,299 (USA) (30 April 2010) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia Kyle Gallner suffered a cut to his abdomen when the glove Jackie Earle Haley had been wearing failed to bend back down, leaving one of the knives still extended. See more » Goofs (at around 55 mins) During swimming practice, Quentin is shown hanging off the dive platform at the end of his lane, listening to the coach talk. 3 or 4 drops of water rise out of the pool and fly up to his elbow, revealing that this particular scene is being played in reverse. (Also you can just make out from the top right of the screen that the coach is actually walking backwards, as shown by the string coming from his right pocket which you can see in the next camera angle) See more » Quotes Courtesy of Turn Up the Music, Inc.

Under license from DMS (United States) – See all my reviews The first scene was my favorite part. Through the remainder of the movie Freddy's voice became more of an annoyance and distraction than a cause for fear (very similar to Christian Bale's Batman). I entered the movie expecting to get whisked away to the wonderful dream-world of Freddy Krueger but was instead pulled into a high school slasher film promoting a typical killer with a grudge and thirst for blood. The fact the victim was trapped inside a dream battling with Freddy wasn't quite enough to satisfy the sense of a nightmarish killer's dream world. The movie lacked the demented mental toyings a character like Freddy should possess (e.g. Pennywise). At the premier, the entire theater let out a "Boo" at the end of the movie. I recommend watching the original Freddy movies instead. 191 of 296 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Anatoliy Dudaev Super Reviewer It's amazing to me that filmmakers can't summon up competent remakes of old horror films.

Given the source material, and the advancements in special effects, a remake of "A Nightmare On Elm Street", should have been a slam dunk. Instead, it was a miserable, and often boring, disaster. The writing is awful, the characters are lifeless, and the use of C.G.I. in the dream sequences is underwhelming. Jackie Earle Haley's interpretation of Freddy was passable, but there's no way it could overcome the mundane storytelling. This movie is garbage. Jason Calvin Super Reviewer ½ I feel sorry for whoever was involved in this movie. Not only did they waste their time, but they got payed for basically ruining the original movie which is one of the best horror movies of all time. The remake to the 1984 Nightmare on Elm Street just shows that remakes never as good as the original. (With few exceptions) Freddy Krueger is just going around killing teens in their dreams and that's the gist of the plot. One thing I was really bothered by is that the scenes in this movie are taken exactly from the original, even almost shot for shot. I know it's a remake, but if you don't add something new then the movie is just dull.

The characters in this version aren't as likeable either. In this version Nancy just looks all goth and looks like she doesn't like anybody or anything. The original potrayed Nancy as charismatic and believable as a tortured teen afraid of dreaming. The actors are all really boring as well. Rooney Mara plays Nancy and her line reading is enough to put anyone to sleep. (I suppose if she wants to prevent her friends from sleeping all she has to do is just shut up.) Jackie Earle Haley takes on the role of Freddy Krueger and I really don't like that choice. He talks like he has throat cancer and he's not as fun as Robert Englund's Freddy. The original Freddy was dark and twisted but he also had a funny side to him. ("Welcome to prime time, bitch!") Also, Freddy's design in this is just stupid looking. He looks like Lord Voldemort's Asian brother. Despite my dislike for how depressing the film felt, I felt like the production value for this movie did a good job of matching that of the original. If you're a fan of Freddy Krueger, stick with the original. This version is just a mess and doesn't deliver the scares the way the original did.

(Don't even get me started on the CGI wall scene in this movie.) Tyler Robertson Freddy Krueger (Reboot Timeline) | Elm Street Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Freddy Krueger (Reboot Timeline) Freddy Krueger as portrayed by Jackie Earle Haley Name Groundskeeper (when he was alive) Serial Killer Jackie Earle Haley Freddy Krueger is the main antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series. This version of Krueger is the main antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot. In this film, he appears once again as a Dream Demon and a serial killer, though this time he is also a child molester that kills the now grown up children who caused his death in their nightmares, but was finally defeated by Nancy Holbrook . Unlike the original Freddy Krueger who over the course of the series developed a cheeky and dark humored personality and always cracked puns and jokes when killing his victims the reboot version of Krueger seems to be more in line with how Wes Craven had originally envisioned the character; a darker, sadistic and much more serious killer.

Contents [ show ] Appearance The remake Freddy's clothing looks almost identical to the original Freddy Krueger; wearing the same red and green sweater and hat as well as sporting the iconic glove that he uses to kill his victims. The only difference are his burns, which look much more realistic in the remake and having a noticeable hole on his cheek as well as one milky cloudy eye and one red blood shot eye. Along with these this version of Krueger looks more gaunt and thinner than the original Freddy. Killer File Krueger was the grounds-keeper at Badham Preschool and a child molester and he had a more personal connection with the protagonist Nancy Holbrook , as he molested her and some of her friends and she was his favorite. Freddy initially appeared to have been wrongly accused and seemingly looked like a friendly gardener around the children. The parents, after hearing about the abuse from their children and observing slashes on their skin and clothes consistent with his trademark glove, burn him to death rather than turn him into the police. They do this to spare their children the trauma of having to testify against him in open court.

Having been burned to death Krueger somehow returns as a vengeful Dream Demon who kills off the now grown up children in their dreams one by one as payback for them being the cause of his death. During the climax, Nancy pulls Freddy into reality and apparently kills him by severing his gloved-hand and slashing his throat with a broken paper cutter blade. However he is still alive and kills Nancy's mother, Gwen Holbrook from the mirror reflection. Victims of the Glove Dean Russell - Killed in Springwood Diner via infliction of honey knife slitting throat Kris Fowles - Killed in home via glove blade slice across chest and impact of fall Jesse Braun - Killed in Springwood Police Station Cell via puncture hole through chest Marcus Yeon - Killed in home via head shove into computer screen Gwen Holbrook - Killed in home via puncture wound of blades through eyes and collision with glass Lisa Harper - Killed in her sleep by unknown causes. Bret Tanzer - Killed in car crash from staying up too long. The Other 5 Children - Killed by Freddy by unknown circumstances. Trivia Billy Bob Thornton was considered for the role of Freddy Krueger .

Jackie Earle Haley , who plays Freddy, originally auditioned for the role of Glen Lantz in the original Elm Street, but lost to his friend, Johnny Depp . Haley would go on to portray Freddy in the remake 26 years later. The remake Freddy being a child molester was something Wes Craven had wanted the original Freddy to be in the first Nightmare film, but the idea was dropped in order to avoid being accused of exploiting the spate of highly publicized child molestation cases in California around the time A Nightmare on Elm Street went into production. In the reboot it isn't explained how Freddy came back after burning to death, though given how he's killing his victims in their dreams as usual it can be assumed that the Dream Demons brought him back just like with the original Freddy. Though a new version of Krueger when the character was announced as a DLC character for the reboot of the fighting game series Mortal Kombat instead of going with how he normally looks the developers instead choose the reboot Freddy as the character model while utilizing a Robert Englund style of voice acting. The only Freddy Krueger portrayal to have his scars and burned appearance to be completely CGI rather than practical make up affects.

See also Freddy Krueger at the Horror wiki. Navigation You review: A Nightmare on Elm Street | Ben Child | Film | The Guardian You review You review: A Nightmare on Elm Street The critics mostly found Michael Bay's retooling of the 1984 slasher classic more soporific than counting sheep. Do they need a wakeup call? 'Bloodless' … A Nightmare on Elm Street. Photograph: AP Monday 10 May 2010 08.03 EDT First published on Monday 10 May 2010 08.03 EDT Share on Messenger Close Wes Craven's original 1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced Freddy Krueger, a hideously burned, bloodthirsty spitball of menace who murdered his victims when they succumbed to sleep. Ironically, most of the critics who caught the 2010 remake found themselves struggling to stay awake for very different reasons, with no razor-taloned angel of death to put them out of their misery.

Complaints range from the sheer predictability of the setup, to the inability of the usually excellent Jackie Earle Haley to get under the skin of the character inhabited for so long by Robert Englund. The new version, from Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes company and overseen by music video director Samuel Bayer, feels like a commercially driven attempt to revive a franchise that's been deader than most of Freddy's victims for a very, very long time. The new film excises the campy one-liners adopted by Englund in later Elm Street sequels, but some suggest they would preferred the odd dodgy pun, if only to add a little cheesy life to the proceedings. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 centres on a group of teenagers from the small American town of Springwood, Ohio, who discover that they are all experiencing nightmares about a horribly burned man wearing a red and green sweater and sporting a clawed glove on his hand. When they are murdered in their dreams, they also die in real life, so they have to stay awake in order to stay alive.

As it turns out, their parents have a secret that holds the key to working out what has been happening to them – one which centres on a grubby gardener who once worked at a local pre-school. "The real problem with A Nightmare on Elm Street is: it's really unbelievably dull," writes Film 4's Ali Catterall . "Bloodless, we guess, being the apposite term. And that's problematic for a slasher film. In fairness, we're given plenty of warning. For many, the phrase A Michael Bay production denotes the exact opposite of a seal of quality; Bay being the accountant behind a rash of duff, deeply unwanted horror re-runs including Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror, The Hitcher and Friday the 13th. "For Bay, a film isn't quite right unless all character, subtlety and nuance has been hacked out, and an audience left with partial deafness.

Essentially, he's the wrong guy to entrust with horror movies, in which insinuation, suggestion and sickeningly slow build-ups rule the hour." "The makers clearly couldn't decide between a prequel or remake," says Time Out's Nigel Floyd , "So they and first-time director Samuel Bayer have jammed both together. Heather Langenkamp's wimpy portrayal of Nancy was the original's weak point, and here Mara's Nancy slips between the somnambulant and the catatonic. This is the worst yet from Michael Bay's horror production company Platinum Dunes." "I stared at A Nightmare on Elm Street with weary resignation," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. "The movie consists of a series of teenagers who are introduced, haunted by nightmares and then slashed to death by Freddy. So what? Are we supposed to be scared? "Freddy is not a good argument for a supernatural existence. He can live inside wallpaper, appear anywhere and has no need of physical existence, except, arguably, when he inflicts actual physical damage. Yet he's such a bore, always growling away with his deep-voiced hahahahaha.

If a man leads an interesting life, he ought to be able to make good conversation, is what I say." Our own Xan Brooks , however, praises this reboot as a rather decent reimagining of the Craven cult favourite. "Does it matter that the plot is little more than a cynical, machine-tooled retread of the 1984 original?" he argues. "Debut director Samuel Bayer was not hired to dismantle the franchise, but to shoot it afresh. He gives us a film in which the teens are screaming and the blood is flowing; a steel-jawed little man-trap tucked just beneath the duvet. Anything less would be a dereliction of duty." The sad thing, for me, about A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010 is that it doesn't even attempt to update the original in any sort of meaningful fashion. The collision of dreams and wakefulness is a huge repository for interesting ideas – see Richard Linklater's Waking Life or even Christopher Nolan's forthcoming Inception. Yet all Bayer can concoct is a series of increasingly unimaginative deaths, which are far less scary in CGI than they were in the 80s original.

In the absence of any new ideas, one might have hoped that the film would at least deliver some hokey but potentially enjoyable horror tropes for aficionados to hang on to. Yet Bayer's Nightmare doesn't even have any sex! Surely at some point, one of these teens should succumb to the sins of the flesh and be duly rewarded with a nasty slice to the unmentionables. Likewise, the movie's scariest premise is barely examined. In the new film, Krueger is either the unfortunate victim of mob justice, or a paedophile rightly punished for preying on local kids. Somewhere in here is a truly horrifying movie, which the Oscar-nominated Haley would have been more than up to the task of exploring. Nope: the remake doesn't want to delve into this murky territory, preferring to retread slasher territory which despite the gore is now safer than the latest Harry Potter instalment. Have you managed to catch A Nightmare on Elm Street? Did it crash and burn harder than any vapid horror remake before it, as most critics have suggested? Or did you rate this one a cut above the rest? Was Haley a decent Freddy? Or is he a fine actor wasted on such third-rate material?

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) | Horror Film Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia A Nightmare On Elm Street A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) 2,120pages on A Nightmare on Elm Street He knows where you sleep. Welcome to Your New Nightmare. Directed By Gross $115,664,037 This page is about the remake. For the original film, see A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) . A Nightmare on Elm Street is a 2010 American-Fantasy Slasher Film Remake of the original Wes Craven Classic A Nightmare On Elm Street . It was written by Eric Heiresser and Directed by music video director Samuel Bayer. The film introduces the new nightmare of Micro-Naps as well as more of the original children of Elm Street targeted for death by the demonic dream stalker Freddy Krueger . Contents Edit While at the Springwood Diner with his girlfriend, Kris Fowles, Dean Russell falls asleep at the table and meets a man covered in burn scars, wearing a red and green sweater and a clawed glove on his hand.

The burned man cuts Dean's throat in the dream, but in reality it appears that Dean is cutting his own throat as friend and waitress Nancy Holbrook looks on with Kris. At Dean's funeral, Kris sees a photograph of her and Dean as children, but cannot recall ever knowing Dean before high school. Kris begins to dream about the burned man herself and refuses to go to sleep for fear that she will die in her dreams. Jesse Braun, Kris's ex-boyfriend, shows up at her house to keep her company while she sleeps, but Kris meets the burned man in her dreams and is murdered. Covered in blood, Jesse runs to Nancy's house to try to explain what happened and he learns that Nancy has been having dreams about the same man; that man's name is Freddy. Jesse is apprehended by the police under suspicion of murdering Kris, and is killed by Freddy when he falls asleep in his jail cell. With her friends dying, Nancy begins to question what everyone's connection is to each other, given that none of them can remember each other before their teenage years. Eventually, Nancy and her friend Quentin Smith discover that all of them, including more children, attended the same preschool together.

Nancy's mother Gwen reluctantly tells Nancy and Quentin that there was a gardener at the preschool, Fred Krueger, who hurt Nancy and the rest of the kids. Gwen explains that Nancy was his favorite, and came home one day telling her mom about Freddy's "magic cave" and the things that happened down there. Gwen claims Krueger skipped town before he was arrested. Nancy does not believe her and attempts to track down the remaining kids from the school. Nancy eventually discovers that all of the other kids have been killed, most of them in their sleep. Meanwhile, Quentin tries to accept that everything is nothing more than repressed memories, but he falls asleep during swim practice and witnesses what really happened to Krueger. Quentin sees everyone's parents hunt down Krueger, and then burn him alive. Quentin and Nancy confront Quentin's father, Alan Smith, about the reality they murdered Krueger with no actual evidence that he had committed any crime. Nancy and Quentin, who both begin sporadically dreaming while they are awake as a result of insomnia, decide to go to the preschool and learn what they can about Krueger.

On the way, Nancy falls asleep and is attacked by Freddy, but when Quentin wakes her up they discover she has pulled a piece of Freddy's sweater out of the dreamworld and into reality. Quentin takes Nancy to the hospital for cuts on her arm; there, he steals some adrenaline and a syringe to help them stay awake. Nancy and Quentin leave the hospital and eventually make it to the preschool. Quentin uncovers Krueger's "magic cave" and the evidence that proves Krueger was physically and sexually abusing all of the childre Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger n. Nancy decides the only way to end this is to pull Krueger out of their dreams and kill him in reality. Quentin tries to stay awake long enough to pull Nancy out of her dream when she has Freddy, but he falls asleep and is attacked. Krueger then goes after Nancy, and explains that he intentionally left her for last so she would stay awake long enough that when she finally fell asleep, she would no longer be able to wake back up. While Nancy struggles with Freddy, Quentin wakes and uses the adrenaline to bring Nancy up and pull Freddy into reality.

With Krueger distracted by Quentin, Nancy uses a broken paper cutter blade to cut Freddy's gloved hand off, and then slice his throat. Afterward, Nancy torches the secret room, with Krueger's body left inside, while she and Quentin leave. Nancy and her mother return home from the hospital, with Nancy being told she should get some sleep. Krueger suddenly appears in a mirror's reflection and kills Nancy's mother before pulling her body through the mirror while Nancy screams. Cast Freddy Krueger | A nightmare on Elm Steet Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia A nightmare on Elm Steet Wiki Share Freddy Krueger is the main antagonist of the Nightmare on Elm Street series. From 1984-2003 he was protrayed by actor Robert Englund, and by Jackie Earle Haley in the 2010 remake. He is most notable for his sense of humor, his burned features, red and green striped sweater, dirty fedora and finger gloves. Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger Contents Edit Freddy Krueger was born to Amanda Krueger (aka Sister Mary Helena), the product of rape.

Known as the "bastard son of a hundred maniacs", Freddy was kicked from foster home to foster home and abused by his foster parent(s). His early life indicates that he was displaying psychopathic tendencies from a young age. Sometime, Freddy married a woman by the name of Loretta, and they had a daughter named Katherine. When Loretta found out about his identity as "The Springwood Slasher", he killed his wife. Katherine saw this and told on him. He was arrested. A legal technicality saw Freddy go free after murdering around twenty children in the Springwood, Ohio area. Terrified, enraged and fearing for the safety of their children, the townspeople hunted Freddy down and burned him alive. He was visited by the Dream Demons, who turned him into a supernatural dream stalker. Weapon of Choice Edit Freddy's weapon of choice is the glove of razors he wears. In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, he has razors on all of his fingers, thumb included. Until then, there are only four razors. Freddy is also known to get creative in his kills. In Nightmare on Elm Street 4, he turned a victim into a bug and squashed her.

In Nightmare on Elm Street 5, he sucks a kid into a comic book and hacks him up like paper. His creativity, his ability to speak and his ability to run sets him apart from some of the other horror movie villains of his era. Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Edit Freddy returns to Elm Street with a vengeance, stalking Nancy Thompson and her friends. The four teenagers he is stalking had parents who were part of his incineration. He is successful in killing everybody out of the group -- including Marge Thompson, Nancy's mother -- with the exception of Nancy, who sends him howling back to Hell. Nancy brings him out of his dream realm and into the real world, where she turns her back on him and takes away all of his energy. Notable deaths in this film is the death of Tina, who was dragged across her ceiling, and Glen, who was sucked into his bed, only to be regurgitated in a fountain of blood. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985) Edit With Nancy and her family long gone, the Walsh family has now bought the infamous house on 1428 Elm Street.

There, Freddy begins to set his sights on oldest child Jesse Walsh. He possesses Jesse and uses his body to kill others. Freddy then manages to completely overtake Jesse for a short period until his girlfriend Lisa saves him from the clutches of Freddy Krueger. A notable death in this film is that of Ron Grady, where Jesse morphs into Freddy and tacks Grady up against the door. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) Edit In Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Freddy is putting his focus on the last of the Elm Street children -- the children of the people who burned him alive and threw his remains in a trunk. Thanks to the shared nightmares and the trauma that Freddy has created, the remaining Elm Street children are now institutionalized at the Westin Hills Psychiatric facility for what has perceived to be attempted suicides. This is also the first Elm Street film to address Freddy's mother, Sister Mary Helena, an apparition that appears to Dr. Neil Gordon throughout the film. Nancy Thompson returns, bringing the old enemies back together once again. The systematic slaughter of everybody continues, getting Nancy and her colleague Dr. Neil Gordon fired from the facility.

This time, Freddy is successful in killing the remainder of the Thompson family in Nancy and her father Donald. However, Freddy is still sent back to Hell, a joint effort between Nancy and the Dream Warriors and Dr. Neil Gordon, who removes Freddy's remains from the trunk of a car and places them in the ground. Notable kills in this film include Jennifer, whose head is put through a television set, Philip, who is walked like a marionette and the Freddy snake, though nobody died there. Also, the death of Taryn, a former drug addict. A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) Edit In Nightmare 4, Kristen unwittingly unleashes Freddy Krueger back onto the people of Springwood. Freddy, upon his release, promptly kills the surviving two Elm Street children before finally killing Kristen. Prior to her death, Kristen summons her friend Alice Johnson into her dream, giving her dream powers to Alice before Freddy disposes of her. Freddy then begins to use Alice, a perpetual daydreamer, as a vessel to kill her friends and her family.

Thanks in part to the traits of her friends getting passed on to Alice in the event of their demise, Alice is able to defeat Freddy inside of the dream realm and release the souls of his children that have given him strength. Notable deaths in this film are that of Debbie, who is turned into a bug and squashed, and Sheila, who is deflated by Krueger's Kiss of Death. A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child (1989) Edit Alice is now a high school graduate. Unknowingly pregnant, Freddy uses the unborn fetus of Alice to carry out his killing sprees, feeding the souls of the victims to her unborn child in an attempt to make her son a killer just like him. Freddy's lineage is explained further in this film, as Alice finds out that the key to defeating him is by freeing the soul of his dead mother Amanda. Freddy is conquered when Alice's son Jacob uses the powers Krueger gave him against the Dreamstalker, sending him kicking and screaming back into the womb of his mother. Notable deaths in this film include Mark, who is sucked into a comic book and cut up like paper.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) Edit Set in the future, Springwood, Ohio, has been completely emptied of children, thanks to Freddy's murderous rampages. The only surviving teenager has been exiled by Freddy to bring his missing daughter back to him. Katherine was taken away from him during his trial. Katherine is now Dr. Maggie Borroughs, adopted out when she was a child. She learns of her heritage and sets out to destroy her father once and for all. Freddy's plan is to leave Springwood and carry on his killing sprees elsewhere, but he needs Katherine to help him. Katherine is an unwilling vessel, which leads to Freddy attempting to kill his own daughter. Delving deep into his brain before their final battle, Katherine learns just what kind of a difficult life her father had, including foster homes, and the sociopath behaviour he exhibted -- from killing his stepfather, to killing class pets. This is also the first film to delve into the Dream Demons, a powerful entity that passed power to Krueger upon his death at the hands of the Springwood residents.

Freddy is unsuccessful in killing his daughter, who blows him up and expels the Dream Demons from him. Notable deaths in this film include Spencer, who is played like a video game. Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993) Freddy Krueger does not specifically appear in The Final Friday, though his glove shows up at the end to drag Jason's hockey mask down to Hell. Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994) Edit New Nightmare takes place in reality, with Freddy trying to break free, into the real world, when the films have stopped. Standing in his way is Heather Langenkamp, the woman he has been tormenting, the actress who played Nancy in the original film. Freddy is also now terrorizing Heather's son Dylan, to the point where Dylan falls practically catatonic. In the end, Heather steps back into the role of Nancy one more time, going into Freddy's lair to defeat Freddy in his own court. Notable deaths in this film include Julie, who is given the Tina Treatment. Freddy vs.

Jason (2003) Edit After years of waiting, fans are finally treated to the match of Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees. Unable to terrorize the teenagers of Springwood -- thanks to a wipeout campaign -- Freddy sends Jason Voorhees to Springwood in an attempt to stir up fear again in Springwood. It works, as Jason is doing all the killing while Freddy is getting all the credit. Unfortunately for Freddy, Jason won't stop and Freddy can't kill anybody, leading to a showdown between them. Freddy and Jason battle it out at Camp Crystal Lake, where the winner of the battle is ambiguous. Notable death includes Mark. It's notable because he's the only one killed by Freddy. Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors (2009) Edit Captured by the United States government, the Pentagon is hoping that they can use the powers of the Necromonicon Ex-Mortis, or the Book of the Dead. It is also their hope to be able to use Freddy Krueger to do some nightmare reconning, to work for the United States government. They soon find out Freddy is hard to control.

Freddy and Jason team up to take over the world and kill the bane of their existence, Evil Dead's Ash Williams. Harnessing the power of the Necromonicon Ex-Mortis, Freddy and Jason amass and army of Deadites and take over the White House. Freddy's daughter Katherine finally switches to the Dark Side, teaming up with her father to take over. In this six-issue comic book series as well, Freddy is finally successful in killing Alice Johnson, who has fallen terminally ill thanks to her powers of dream control. He is conquered when the spirit of Nancy Thompson and Dr. Neil Gordon recite the spell of the Necromonicon, and send Freddy back to Hell, where the Necromonicon strips Freddy of his power. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Edit This is the first Elm Street film without Robert Englund. Krueger is now played by Jackie Earle Haley. Freddy is a child molester who worked at a preschool in Springwood, Ohio. He has a personal connection to every character in this film, especially Nancy Holbrook.

Though the teenagers thought that Freddy had been wrongly accused and burned alive by the parents, Nancy and Quentin soon realize that Freddy was in fact a child molester who had gone so far as to take photographs of his crimes. Nancy brings him out of the dream and kills him. However, like the other films, Freddy isn't dead for good. In Television Edit From 1988-1990, a Nightmare on Elm Street anthology series titled Freddy's Nightmares aired. The series filmed 44 episodes in its two season run. Robert Englund reprised the role of Freddy Krueger for this series. While a small number of episodes -- pilot included -- directly involved Freddy Krueger, most of the episodes had him in the host or "Cryptkeeper" role. Freddy Krueger was featured in a couch gag on a Simpsons Halloween Episode. He was voiced by Robert Englund, who sat with Jason on the Simpson's couch. In Popular Culture Freddy Krueger is a downloadable character in 2011's Mortal Kombat. Freddy also appears in a video game adapted from the films for Nintendo in 1989.

There is a Simpsons Halloween story called "A Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", where Freddy is Groundskeeper Willie. Freddy has also been featured in songs by artists such as Nicki Minaj, DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince and Eminem, to name a few. Trivia Edit Robert Englund was not the initial choice to play Krueger. Series creator Wes Craven admitted he initially was looking for an older man and stuntmen to play the part. The appearance of Freddy Krueger came from an experience Wes Craven had while dreaming. He had a nightmare about a man chacing him with finger knives and made his nightmare into a timeless horror classic. Fred Krueger is the name of a person who shared a paper route with Wes Craven as a child, and had bullied him for several years. Freddy was originally supposed to be a child molester; however Wes scrapped the idea as there had been a rash of molestations in the California area and Wes did not want to be accused of exploiting them. Robert Englund says that he based Freddy's physicality on Klaus Kiniski's role in Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht. He states that Freddy Krueger represents those neglected in society.

Robert Englund improvised the line "Welcome to primetime, bitch!" in Elm Street 3. Billy Bob Thornton was considered to play Freddy Krueger for the remake. Jackie Earle Haley won his role as Freddy Krueger thanks to his role as Rorshach in Watchmen Robert Englund wrote a script that was unused for Elm Street 3. Quotes "I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy." -- Elm Street 1 "This is God." -- Elm Street 1 "Did you know that the heart stops beating the brain functions for up to seven minutes? That means we've got six more minutes to play." -- Remake "Why are you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet." -- Remake "Welcome to prime time, bitch!" -- Elm Street 3 New 'Nightmare on Elm Street' Reboot in the Works New 'Nightmare on Elm Street' Reboot in the Works Yahoo Movies• Pin it Share New Line Cinema has started developing a new A Nightmare On Elm Street film and has hired David Leslie Johnson (Orphan) to write the script, TheWrap has learned. Burned boogeyman Freddy Krueger will return once again to haunt characters’ dreams.

The role was made famous by Robert Englund before Jackie Earle Haley slipped on the razor glove in 2010, though the slasher role will likely be recast with a younger actor this time around. The 2010 movie was killed by critics, though it grossed $115 million worldwide, turning a bloody good profit for the studio. Related: Kurt Russell Horror-Western ‘Bone Tomahawk’ to Headline Fantastic Fest 2015 New Line executives Richard Brener, Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter will oversee the project on behalf of the studio. Johnson, who wrote Red Riding Hood and Wrath of the Titans, most recently did rewrites on James Wan’s Conjuring sequel. He’s represented by Paradigm. The news was first reporting by the Tracking Board.

Question: Which actor portrays 'Freddie Krueger' in the 2010 remake of 'Nightmare On Elm Street'?
Answer: JACKIE EARL HALEY